On This Day for February 7 - British Invasion launched with Beatles' arrival in U.S., Charles Dickens is featured, and more

Created: 2020-02-07 11:04 Updated: 2020-02-07 11:04 Notebook: On this Day in History

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February 07

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

1812

Charles Dickens

FEATURED EVENT

1964

British Invasion launched with Beatles' arrival in U.S.

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2015: American collegiate basketball coach Dean Smith—who recorded 879 career victories, making him one of the most successful men's collegiate basketball coaches—died in North Carolina. [ Why Are Basketball Hoops 10 Feet High? ]

1999: ʿAbdullah II became king of Jordan hours after the death of his father, Ḥussein.

Chris Rock at the 41st NAACP Image Awards, Los Angeles, 2010.

1966: American comedian Chris Rock , who became known for his stand-up routines and films, was born.

1885: Sinclair Lewis, an American novelist and social critic who punctured national complacency with his broadly drawn, widely popular satiric novels and who in 1930 became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born. [Take our Literary World (Authors & Poets) quiz .]